Colin Farrell Tag

‘Sugar’: Not the Neo-Noir Revival We Need Roughly a month ago—time gets a little slippery when you have a newborn—I was flicking through my streaming options on my iPad, intent on finding something to see me through the predawn hours. I stumbled upon “Sugar,” a new series on Apple TV+ starring the ever-reliable Colin Farrell as a private detective in Los Angeles. I was intrigued, of course. How often does a major studio (or a tech company playacting as a major studio) spend a substantial amount of money on aRead More
‘True Detective’ Season 2: Was It Better Than We All Thought? The first season of “True Detective,” starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson as Louisiana detectives pursuing a serial killer, is considered a masterpiece of mood, a neo-noir that expertly delivered its plot twists and existential despond. When the show’s second season debuted in 2015, it was lambasted as a poor follow-up, a half-baked mess of classic noir tropes and overindulgent acting. But was it really that bad? Or did it just suffer in comparison with its predecessor? Just inRead More

Posted On September 6, 2015By Marcus MuenteferingIn Crimemag, Film/Fernsehen

Binge Watching: True Detective 2

Warum die zweite Staffel misslungen ist – und trotzdem absolut sehenswert. Von Marcus Müntefering Vorbemerkung 1: Der folgende Text enthält so gut wie keine Handlungsdetails, da die zweite Staffel von „True Detective“ (kurz TD2) in Deutschland bislang nur im Original ohne Untertitel bei Sky Anytime und Go ausgestrahlt wurde und somit nur eine Minderheit der CrimeMag-Leser sie gesehen haben dürfte. Die synchronisierte Fassung zeigt Sky ab 17. September 2015. Es dürfte in diesem Jahr die einzige legale Möglichkeit bleiben, die Serie in Deutschland zu sehen. Anlässlich der DVD-Veröffentlichung – voraussichtlichRead More